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12:35 Women of the calabash. Learning how to listen to African aesthetics. It's not hearing. It's noticing the embodied gestures, feeling the sense of timing and rhythms interlocking, its visual --seeing how they move, and it takes time to appreciate if you are new to it. 19:25 "As a youth, I was shy... Chuck gave me a voice. Chuck told me I could dance and I could reach people through my movement" 20:00 FESTAC 1977
Bamboozled with an Arab slant could also have been done. Someone was asking me about the brutality of October 7th. I asked back: "Did Nat Turner's rebellion take place in a vacuum? Was Spartacus' slave rebellion caused by the slaves? Was Attica caused by the prisoners?" You can take people and you can break them, but past the point where their lives don't matter to them lies a dangerous place. There is no justification for October 7th, only understanding. The number of 34,000 dead civilians has stood for a month now because Israel finished killing the counters.
There have been 2 recent phases in my life, one of them, I acted on my ideas, and the other, I didn't. It doesn't take much to guess which stage was amazing and which one was stagnant and aimless.
It was Muhammad Ali who first described the Vietnam-era draft as “white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.”
I would add something to Dr. Gates' statement that many white Americans are afraid, which I agree with. I would say that many white Americans are afraid that, without the protection of the myth of white supremacy, others will realize that they are just mediorcre, average. Not better than, but, God forbid, less intelligent than, less capable than, some black people. In our heart of hearts, we all - everyone, no matter what our "race" - know where we stand in the pecking order of intelligence, looks, economics, the force of our personailties, etc. And for the vast majority of us, we realize there are folks who are more gifted with these attributes than we are, and there are folks who are less gifted. So imagine you're one of these mediocre white folks, but you feel badly about who you are. If you take away the one buffer out there that can make you feel a little better about yourself - the notion of white supremacy - you just have to face the truth about yourself. I think for some people that's just the last straw, and they can't take it. Now add to this that you don't have to actually be mediocre to feel badly about yourself. You can be good looking, highly intelligent, and rich and still have a very low opinion of yourself. I think people who want to "make America great again" and are afraid, want to hang onto white supremacy, sexism, xenophobia, etc. because they can't accept themselves as they are at a very deep level.
I wanted to watch this because I like John Cleese, but the bloke introducing him is unbelievable. He talks on about a lecturer trying to explain humour, that he waffles on. But this bloke then does the same thing.
Wow. 🌸🌸🌸 "The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice." Virginia Woolf
Oyeee Alberto Corrales ese me saco de circulacion el otro dia asereeeeee cuando me dijo tu conoses a Jose Luis de ninguna parte no me dio tiempo a desirle nada porke esa gente no dejan hablar a nadie oye me tuvo toda la noche llorando 😢😢😢😢😢es mejor llorar y no hablar con este tema esto esta fuerte estooo esta pa pensarlooooo ke locura la muerte de Jose Luis 😢😢😢😢😢yo estoy la verdad muy mal con esta talla 😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤
Yeah that documentary is thought provoking how Larry exploited those vulnerable kids and people like Harmony and Chloe didn't look out for Justin and Harold like she was filming American Psycho while Justin was in a dark place like she's relevant due to those two legends
In all realness, it makes me mad af to see my ancestors perform for their "masters". This is beautiful, yet taken away from these peoples until it became a novelty for (again) whites to indulge in. I'm sad and glorious at the same time...smh
